2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

And my inability to share this anger with anybody in the lobby aroused in me a profound sense of isolation." - Toru Okada

I know exactly what I'm doing, but I just can't stop. That's my greatest weakness.

Quem tem um coração negro só pode ter sonhos negros. Aqueles que o têm ainda mais escuro nem sequer sabem o que é sonhar...

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up

Time does not expand.""But time is actually expanding, isn't it? You yourself said that time adds up.""That's only because time needed for transit has decreased. The sum total of time doesn't change. It's only that you can see more movies.

The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river water struggle against each other at a river mouth, the old time and the new time clash and blend. Takahashi is unable to tell for sure which side—which world—contains his center of gravity.

So called art films. Movies like that never explained what was going on. Explanations were rejected as some kind of evil that could only destroy the films "reality".